Staff Profile

Career Summary

Biography

Dr Sarah Bankins joined the Newcastle Business School as a Lecturer in 2012, after completing her PhD at the Queensland University of Technology. Sarah previously held roles in both human resources and workforce capability areas in the Queensland public sector. She has also held research assistant posts at QUT and Macquarie University. Sarah's research work focuses on psychological contracting in organisations and she currently coordinates and teaches courses in the management discipline.

Qualifications

PhD, Queensland University of Technology, 20/06/2012

Bachelor of Business (Management), University of Queensland, 18/12/2002

Bachelor of Economics, University of Queensland, 18/12/2002

Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education, University of Newcastle, 30/07/2014

Research

Research keywords

Innovation champions

Organisational behaviour

Psychological contracts

Social innovation

Research expertise

My main research areas lie within the organisational behaviour and innovation fields - separately and jointly. I have a particular focus on psychological contracts and employment relationships - exploring how the employee-employer exchange unfolds over time. I have also received research funding to explore how workplace relationships influence the effectiveness of innovation champions within organisations and am currently working with an industry partner on the Central Coast to better explore the process of social innovation.

Bankins SM, 'Tracking employees' twists and turns: a mixed methods approach to assessing change in the psychological contract', Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies, Madrid (2010) [E1]

2010

Bankins SM, 'Expectations, obligations or promises? A conceptual review and revision of the beliefs comprising the psychological contract', Proceedings of the 24th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference: Managing for Unknowable Futures, Adelaide (2010) [E1]

2008

Bankins SM, Waterhouse J, Puchala N, 'Closing the gap: the next steps for the interaction of corporate reputation and psychological contract development', Proceedings of the 22nd Annual British Academy of Management Conference, Harrogate (2008) [E3]